Mass Effect 3 Wiki Guide

Controversies

The Endings of Mass Effect 3 are disappointing to some fans due inconsistencies between Mass Effect 3 and the other games in the trilogy, lack of coherency with certain scenes, and to a varying degree, the lack of impact the players' decisions had on the final sequences. Furthermore; initial promises made by Bioware and its spokespeople about the branching quality of the endings were also seen to be unfulfilled.

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Particularly aggrieved fans had launched a campaign to get the Mass Effect 3 ending changed. There was even a Retake Mass Effect movement which was raising funds for the Child's Play Charity, in the hope of being taken seriously by BioWare. Their mission statement reads "We would like to dispel the perception that we are angry or entitled. We simply wish to express our hope that there could be a different direction for a series we have all grown to love." [1]

One of Mass Effect 3's Endings

When asked if BioWare listens to feedback, BioWare Director Casey Hudson said, "We pay very close attention to it. It's very important to us and we will always listen to feedback, interpret it and try and do the right thing by our fans."

In a response to the huge fan feedback regarding Mass Effect 3's ending, Chris Priestly, Bioware's community coordinator, wrote on Bioware's official forums that they are waiting for the appropriate time to respond.

Priestly wrote: "we appreciate everyone's feedback about Mass Effect 3 and want you to know we are listening. Active discussions about the ending are more than welcome here, and the team will be reviewing it for feedback and responding when we can.

On March 19, 2012, BioWare further responded on Facebook by saying that nothing was off the table.

"We would like to clarify that we are actively and seriously taking all player feedback into consideration and have ruled nothing out. At this time we are still collecting and considering your feedback and have not made a decision regarding requests to change the ending. "[2]

In response, Bioware released the Extended Cut DLC which modifies and extends the endings.

The first batch of DLC for Mass Effect 3, From Ashes, contains important story elements and an important squad member. From Ashes is provided free for fans who purchase the Mass Effect 3 N7 Collector's Edition, or available for $10 to everyone else. The content leaked to Xbox Live and caused controversy among fans unhappy with EA for releasing day one DLC.

Later, it was revealed that this squadmate's likeness was on the Mass Effect 3 disc, but BioWare confirmed that the remaining content, such as the assets for the DLC's quest and the character's dialog, was not on the disc.

If you rekindle a romance with Tali in Mass Effect 3, she will give you a photo of herself for your bedstand. The photo has been idenitified as a doctored stock photo, which generated a minor controversy.

Some fans are upset Tali, a Quarian appears as a Human female in the photo. Also, the use of the stock photo itself seemed to some fans like it was 'shrugging off' a major reveal that should have had more attention put into it. nevertheless this image can be found on the internet by making a quick search "getty images hammasa royalty".

There have been problems with importing previous saves on the Xbox 360. Namely if you tried to use a save on a system with a cloud save that wasn't made on the original system it won't be able to be used. The game will also not import the appearance of a Shepard created in the first Mass Effect.

Numerous issues came about when dozens of fans injured themselves in attempts to retrieve Mass Effect 3 from the wilderness in California. Fans at other sites have complained about the handling of the promotional campaign as well.

In Mass Effect, when you scan the planet Klencory in the Newton system of the Kepler Verge cluster, you get this description (spoilers below, but they are technically from Mass Effect):

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Klencory is famously claimed by the eccentric volus billionaire Kumun Shol. He claims that a vision of a higher being told him to seek on Klencory the "lost crypts of beings of light." These entities were supposedly created at the dawn of time to protect organic life from synthetic "machine devils." Shol has been excavating on Klencory's toxic surface for two decades, at great expense. No government has valued the world enough to evict his small army of mercenaries.

Klencory is famously claimed by the eccentric volus billionaire Kumun Shol. His once-ridiculed visions of "beings of light" protecting organic life from synthetic "machine devils" don't seem quite so far-fetched now. His private army of mercenaries are well-established on the planet, waiting for husks to come knocking in on their door. In all likelihood, they will be obliterated by the molten metal of a Reaper orbital bombardment, on its way to somewhere important.

It turns out that Kumun Shol was right about a lot of what comes to pass at the end of Mass Effect 3.